BRIDGES To The Pharmaceutical Sciences

该提案所述项目的目标是增加进入制药科学职业轨道的少数族裔学生人数。该项目的目的是建立一种手段，为佛罗里达州坦帕湾/希尔斯堡地区的少数族裔学生提供必要的知识基础和适当的技能，以获得副艺术(AA)学位，并成功地与其他人竞争，获得佛罗里达农工大学药学的入门级学位。将通过以下方式实现这一目标：制定创新的招生战略，吸引至少30名对物理、自然或生物医学感兴趣的少数族裔申请者；提供一个结构，以提高学习和人际交往技能，培养信心，并展示职业行为；提供财政支持和/或确定资源和获得这些资源的技能；通过大学前活动和咨询使学生为适应新的大学环境做好准备；建立学术支持倡议，包括辅导、指导、建议和建模活动；跟踪学生的进步，并在必要时进行方案调整，以继续实现桥梁项目的目标。这项计划将有助于增加FAMU药学和药学学院成功完成课程的机会，因为这是通过与学生建立联系来完成课程的，也可能有助于增加生物医学科学研究生学习中的少数族裔人数。

The goal of the project described in this proposal is to increase the number of underrepresented minority students who enter career tracks in the pharmaceutical sciences. The objective of this project is to establish a means for providing minority students from the Tampa Bay/Hillsborough County, Florida area with the knowledge base and appropriate skills necessary attain the Associate in Arts (AA) degree and to successfully compete with others in obtaining an entry-level degrees in the pharmaceutical sciences at Florida A&M University. This objective will be met by establishing an innovative recruitment strategy for attracting at least 30 minority applicants with interests in the physical, natural or biomedical sciences; providing a structure to improve learning and interpersonal skills, developing confidence, and demonstrating professional behavior; providing financial support and/or identifying resources and the skills to access those resources; preparing students for the new college environment with pre-college activities and counseling; establishing academic support initiatives, including tutorial, mentoring, advising and modeling activities; and tracking students' progress and making programmatic adjustments when necessary to continue to meet the goal of the BRIDGES project. This program will be instrumental in increasing the chances of successful completion of the curriculum at the FAMU College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences by BRIDGES participants, and may serve to increase the number of minorities in post-graduate studies in the biomedical sciences as well.